Scratching on Maschine

D-One

Ewwww fake scratching? Plugs that imitate scratching generally sound terrible, too perfect, no groove, no feel, 100% quantised, etc... but I cant really criticise it when I use "fake" guitars and other instruments as plugins.... Whatever works.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/74646#Comment_74646

Masters usually have some level of compression after the mixing is done, depends on the mix tho... You should treat scratching exactly the same way as a vocal or any instrument.

RAW can be fine, depends on whats the purpose, is it just chilling and trying out some stuff or are you planning to officially release it to streaming platforms?

AxMusic

Starting out, and practicing my cuts and scratches… for fun as I get the hang of the dj controller, but eventually put out official releases on streaming..

Got it treat cuts like vocals 👍🏻

Flexi

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/74783#Comment_74783

A lot of that is simply practice and adapting, it is very similar to a guitarist moving further away from the amp that they are using and tapping.

A quick example is some people being slick on a PT01 but on a 12 they are absolutely terrible, because they never used a 12, I know a ton of tablist now who swear by Phase once they got used to it and adapted, I still prefer vinyl myself, but Phase and the Rane are intriguing and definitely the future.

As for scratching in Maschine, unless you are doing something special (Unlikely on an S3, with no disrespect meant to ANYBODY who cuts, no matter the kit) but you may find it much more useful to just duplicate the pad in Maschine, reverse the duplicate, then change the start point of the reversed duplicate, now trigger the first sample and the duplicate and you will have perfect forward backward motion that you can sequence directly in the pattern.

But my main suggestion would be get a cheap PT01 and some Yo 7"s.

D-One

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/74838#Comment_74838

Then I wouldn't worry too much about it, scratching takes quite a while to learn so you will probably hate your current cuts compared to what they will be 6 months from now.

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/74893#Comment_74893

Sorry, I did watch the last two and I am not sure how a flare tutorial or a scratch visualizer fits into any of this.... ? (looks very cool tho)

Just watched the first video, I wasn't referring to that btw, I was talking generally about scratching emulation tools, simpler things like Gross Beat, the new akai Flex Beta thingy, etc...

D-One

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/75291#Comment_75291

Noted. Sorry, I didn't mean to disregard what you said, I apologize if it sounded insensitive. Just trying to help op with what he especially asked.

AxMusic

I appreciate all the feedback everyone.

Thank you for all the ideas, and input.

Yeah I hadn’t heard much about plug ins for scratches.. interesting concepts since pretty much everything can be digitized now.